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- Information
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit.
- Intelligence
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- Nov 07, 2020
Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
- Lie
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a lie, but Heaven will forgive you for it.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
Each section of the British Isles has its own way of laughing, except Wales, which doesn't.
- Electricity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Electricity is of two kinds, positive and negative. The difference is, I presume, that one comes a little more expensive, but is more durable; the other is a cheaper thing, but the moths get into it.
- Now And Then
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- Nov 07, 2020
A sportsman is a man who every now and then, simply has to get out and kill something.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently turns out to be so.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy.
- Same
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- Nov 07, 2020
On the same bill and on the same side of it there should not be two charges for the same thing.
- Anything
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- Nov 07, 2020
The landlady of a boarding-house is a parallelogram - that is, an oblong angular figure, which cannot be described, but which is equal to anything.
- Laugh
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- Nov 07, 2020
We think of the noble object for which the professor appears tonight, we may be assured that the Lord will forgive any one who will laugh at the professor.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
Golf may be played on Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort.
- Forcible
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- Nov 07, 2020
A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.
- Every Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
If every day in the life of a school could be the last day but one, there would be little fault to find with it.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
It may be those who do most, dream most.
- Great Believer
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
He flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.
- Fishing
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is to be observed that 'angling' is the name given to fishing by people who can't fish.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020